Moving advertising device.



S. J. SCOTT.

MOVING ADVERTISING DEVIB.

APPLIGATION FILED JUNE ze, 1909.

964,320. Patented July 12,1910.

UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIoE- SAMUEL J. SCOTT, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, OF ONE-THIRD TO JAMES 0. SLOAN AND ONE-THIRD TO ISAAC N. GATRELL,

OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

MOVING ADVERTISING DEVICE.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented July 12, 1910.

Application led June 26, 1909. Serial No. 504,42.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL J. SCOTT a citizen of the United States, residing at Solumbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Moving Advertising Devices, of which the following is a specilication.

This invention relates to the improvement of moving advertising devices, and the objects of my invention are to provide an advertising device comprising improved means for displaying a plurality of traveling advertisements; to provide improved means for supporting and carrying the advertising cards and imparting motion to the card supporting belts and to produce other improvements, the details of which will be more fully pointed out hereinafter. These objects I accomplish in the manner illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of an advertising device having my improved construction, Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section on line w-ac of Fig. 1, the divisions between the advertising cards being omitted in said View for the sake of clearness in illustration, Fig. 3 is an enlarged vertical section of my device, in which portions of the advertising cards are removed, Fig. 4 is a front or face viewof a portion of my device with the casing and advertising cards removed, Fig. 5 is an enlarged sectional view on line 2-2 of Fig. et, and, Fig. 6 is an enlarged detail sectional view on line L -a of Fig. 3.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In carrying out my invention, I employ an oblong casing such as is indicated at 1, said casing bein formed in its forward face with a longitudinal opening 2, which eX- tends throughout the greater portion of the length thereof, said opening being preferably illed with a glass plate 3. Within one end of the casing, I provide a suitable form of electric motor, which is indicated at 4, the central shaft'thereof carrying a power transmitting worm 5, which meshes with a worm wheel 6 carried on a vertical shaft 7, the upper and lower end portions of which are rotatably mounted in fixed bearing blocks 8, which are supported in the upper and lower horizontal members of the casin 1. Adjacent to this shaft 7 and parallel therewith is provided a vertical roller body 9, said roller body having reduced end portions 9 and havlng end spindles 10 which bear in blocks '11 fixed in the upper and lower sides of the casing 1, each of said blocks-being provided with an inner side recess containing a plurality of bearing rollers 12, which are arran ed about the roller spindles 10. The lower gearing block 11 has a continuous race-way in its upper face as indicated at 11a in which are mounted bearing balls 13, the upper sides of these balls having in contact therewith the lower face of a gear wheel 14 which is carried on the lower end portion of the shaft 9 and which gears with a similar wheel l5 carried on the shaft 7 and near one end thereof. The central portion of the roller 9 has formed therein, a continuous peripheral groove 9b within which is adapted to run a card belt 16, which near the opposite end of the casing 1 runs in a similar groove over a second roller 17 corresponding with the roller 9. This roller 17 is as prescribed for the roller 9 pivoted in bearing blocks 18, these blocks 18, however, being supported in longitudinal recesses 1a in the inner surfaces of the upper and lower casing sides. In opposite sides of each of the blocks 18 is formed a V-shaped way or groove 18a and into these opposing grooves project the correspondingly shaped ends of fixed keys 19 which projectinto the recesses 1a from opposite sides thereof, as shown more clearly in Fig. 6 of the drawing. The .bearing blocks which are thus slidably mounted in the recesses 1tl are limited in their movement toward the blocks 11, by coiled springs 2O which bear between the inner ends of the casing recesses 1a and the corresponding ends of said blocks, said springs serving to normally hold the card belt 16 taut.

The lower end of the roller 17 is supported on bearing balls 21 which are arranged as prescribed for the bearing balls 13 in a race-way of the lower bearing block 18. Running over the reduced outer por tions of the rollers 9 and 17, are upper and lower belt members 22 and23. Each of these belt members is channel shaped in cross section, its forward vertical member being shorter than its rear vertical member, as shown more clearly in Fig. 5. The rear vertical member of the belts 22 and 23 are connected at suitable intervals by a vertical or transverse bar 24 by gluing or cementing; or if the belts are made of metal as -they may be, the bars 24 may be secured thereto by soldering, and with each end of each of these bars is connected a pair of brace bars 25, which extend from opposite sides of said bar ends and have their remaining ends connected with the card belt 16 on opposite sides of the bar 24. The brace bars 25 may be of comparatively thin flexible sheet metal or other. similar substance, so as to admit of the same bending about the rollers 9 and 17 in passing the same. The bars 24 are preferably arranged at equidistances one from the other, the spaces between said bars being substantially equal to the length of the advertising cards to be used as hereinafter described. Above and below the center of the length of each of the bars 24, I provide an outwardly projecting button member or pin 26, the enlarged rounded heads of these pins being adapted to enter and detachably engage correspondingly shaped sockets in button catch members `27 which are carried on vertical strips 28 of flexible material, the upper and lower ends of said strips being aiiixed to the faces of the shorter vertical members of the belts 22, there being one of each of said strips 28 for each of the bars 24. The strips 28 may be secured to the shorter vertical members of the belts 22 and 23 by cementing or gluing; 'or if the parts areof metal, by soldering, as in the case of the bars 24.

29 Arepresent advertising cards, the upper edge portions of said cards extending, as shown in Fig. 5, within the upper and lower belt channels, while the ends or vertical edges of said cards overlap beneath the strips 28 where they are held in place by having the button members 26 forced through their marginal portions and into the sockets of the members 27.

Through a suitable source of electricity,

'rotary motion is imparted to the motor shaft and worm 5, which through its gear connection with the worm wheel 6, operates to rotate the shaft 7, which carries the gear wheel l5. Through `the meshing of the gear wheel 15 with the gearwheel 14, rotary motion is imparted to the roller 9 and through the card belt 16 thereof, a similar rotary motion is imparted Ato the roller 17, thus providing a continuous or traveling movement of the belts 22 and 23 and the advertising cards which arecarried thereby.

Through the medium of the bars 24 and thel brace members 25, it will be seen that the upper and lower belts 22 and 23 will be held in proper parallel relation with each other and with the card belt 16. The springs 20 which exert an outward pressure on the bearing blocks 18 of the roller A17, will serve as will readily be seen to hold the herein provided for accomplishing the objects of the invention, but while the elements shown and described are lwell adapted to' serve the purposes for which they are intended, it is to be understood that the invent-ion. is not limited to the precise construction set forth, but includes within its purview such changes as may be made within the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim, is:

1. In an advertising device, the combination with a casing, separated rollers journaled in said casing, upper and lower, separately formed beltsl running over said rollers, each of .said belts being of channel form in cross section, and an intermediate driving belt also running over said rollers, of successively arranged advertising cards having their upperand lower marginal /portions embraced within theA channels of said upper and lower belts, means for retaining said upper and lower belts in parallel positions, and means for imparting rotary motion to one of said rollers.

2. In an advertising device, the combination with a casing, separated rollers journaled in said casing, upper and lower separately formed belts running about said rollers, an intermediate driving belt, bars extending at intervals between said upper and lower belts, brace members connecting the ends of said bars with said intermediate belt, and fastening devices carried by said bars,- flexible belt connecting stripson the outer sides of said bars, said strips carrying fastening devices adapted to engage with those of the bars', of advertising cards having their upper and lower marginal portions engaged with said upper and lower belts and their adjoiningend portions connected by said fastening devices between said belt connecting bars and strips, and means for imparting motion to one of said rollers.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL J. SCOTT.

Witnesses:

L.- CARL STOUGHTON,

A. L. PHELPS. 

